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Student computer lab Jerusalem eyewitness to speak
Security tightens to block tampering
by Dan Erickson
s ecurity in the computer lab will be greatly tightened next
quad. The changes are due in part to recent breaches of
computer security. "Only programs that we have autho-rized
will be able to run on the Macs," said Steve Clark,
director of f North Park's Computer Services. 'The secu-rity
package will dis-allow any non-authorized programs from run-ning,"
he explained.
A World Wide Web, page will be posted soon by Computer Ser-vices
listing all of the programs authorized to run on computer lab
computers. "Games will not be on the list," added Clark.
"That's all my fault," admitted first year student Tim Allen. Allen
has been banned from the student com-puter
lab and from the use of any
North Park computer. After using
a program which allowed him to
see other users' passwords,
Allen found himself in hot
water. He claims to have
gained access to the MacAd-ministrator
security system
password, enabling him to
bypass the security on almost
any computer in the lab. He
also managed to find out other
students' passwords to their
Eudora (e-mail) accounts.
"The only password I ever used
was the MacAdministrator password," he asserted. 'The old secu-rity
program was very loose," he said, "All it did was ensure that
you could not take anything away or add anything to the hard
drive. Somebody could have messed up that system so royally
and they never would have been caught."
Allen describes the program he used to obtain confidential
passwords as a keyboard tracer which he downloaded off the
internet. "Anytime you press a key, it records it," he explained,
"even clicks on the mouse." He would install the invisible program,
called Oasis, on a computer and wait for someone to log in. Later,
Allen could look at the log which displayed each keystroke, includ-ing
passwords.
"Most people can't understand why I did what I did," said Allen,
"I just wanted to see what I could do. How far I could carry it. [I
thought] it would.. .[be] cool to have that MacAdministrator pass-word."
While he says he is now sorry about the whole incident, Allen
41101 2
by Peri Stone
R osemary Radford
Ruether, a theolo-gian,
professor and
author, hopes to
inform the North
Park community on both femi-nist
theology and the peace
process in Jerusalem when
she leads a discussion on cam-pus
on March 27.
Although known for her work
in feminist theology, Ruether is
a recognized scholar of the
Middle East, according to Dr.
Don Wagner, director of the
Center for Middle Eastern
Studies.
"She's an eyewitness to
what is going on in Jerusalem,"
said Wagner. "You could say
she has a minor in the Middle
East."
Wagner feels that the media
has not dealt with the situation
in Jerusalem in an honest way,
commenting, "Rosemary will
bring a different perspective
than what the mainstream
media is presenting." Ruether
will explain why the peace pro-cess
is not going to work the
way it is being handled. She
will also deal with what she
feels is the lack of response
from religious communities
everywhere.
Ruether is a Catholic femi-nist
theologian who teaches at
Garrett Theological Seminary.
Her courses focus on the inter-relation
of Christian theology
and history to social justice
issues, including sexism,
racism, poverty, militarism and
ecology.
Her interests in social
issues, especially in the global-ization
of feminist theology,
have led her to places such as
Canada, Mexico, South Africa,
Israel/Palestine, England, Swe-den
and Norway. Her travels
have helped develop what she
calls "a global network of com-munication."
One of her most
recent travels was to the Inter-national
Women's Conference
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Plug-In attendees clean up after a vicious newspaper "snowball" fight. Photo by Lukas Eklund
Plug-in: youth group for city kids
by Dan Erickson
Rick Yngve and Dan
Olson won with a narrow
20-vote margin. Only NG
voters turned out for the
election out of about
1800 undergrads.
The proposed constitu-tional
revisions passed
with an overwhelming
margin.
hile most North
Parkers avoid
eye-contact and
try to move past
the junior highers
blocking the bridge during their
lunch break, senior Paul
Andrews is out making friends.
Crossing the bridge and
turning left onto Von Steuben's
field, rather than right with thd
rest of the flow of North Park-ers,
Andrews is greeted by
smiling faces. Some even ditch
a game of touch football to
hang out with him until the
lunch break ends.
Andrews is the coordinator
of Plug-In, the Urban Outreach
program dedicated to bringing
the word of Jesus Christ to the
students of Albany Park Multi-cultural
Academy, the junior
high side of Von Steuben High
School.
"This is what it's all about,"
said Andrews as he walked
onto the campus, "developing
relationships."
Even kids who've never
been to a Plug-In meeting
know about the program.
"You must be Paul," said one
boy, joining the school-yard
group at the urging of one of
his friends, a regular attender.
Andrews used this as an
opportunity to get to know the
boy and invite him to the meet-ing
right after school.
"Everyone knows [about
Plug-In], there's signs every-where
around school," said
seventh-grader Lenneah Jubi-nal,
who's been coming to the
meetings since the first one
last fall. "It's the bomb!" she
enthusiastically declared.
Plug-In is an after-school
program that "provides a safe
and nurturing environment for
the youth that attend [APMA],"
according to the After Hours
vision statement.
Plug-In is just one of sev-eral
After Hours programs
developed to help achieve this
goal. "After Hours is holistic. It
allows us to meet the kids
where they're at," said
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admits to having rationalized it in his mind while doing it. "I really
shouldn't have been doing it in the first place," he said, "It's not
my computer system, but I wasn't thinking that at the time."
Allen explained that he finally got caught when another student
in the lab noticed what he was doing and saw someone else's e-mail
password. Allen then called the student whose password
was revealed to warn them to change the no-longer-confidential
password.
Once Computer Services was informed of the security breach,
Allen was banned
from the lab and
referred to Charles
Olcese, dean of stu-dent
life. While it is
still not completely
clear what was done,
Olcese says that ultimately it could be a criminal offense. "Usu-ally
we don't take things that far," said Olcese, who also said he
would prefer to turn situations such as this into an educational
experience for the student.
The tightened security will affect at least some faculty as well as
students. Physics professor Larry Martin, who relies extensively
on the use of computers in his classroom instruction, has also
recently experienced a breach of security. "I ran a fairly open envi-ronment...
now I have to stop what I've been doing," said Martin.
Aware that no computer system can ever be completely secure,
Martin said, "In some ways I depend on ignorance to keep secu-rity."
As for whether Allen is connected in any way to the security
problems experienced by Martin, he said, "Right now I have no
reason to believe it was that student."
Another security program being installed by Computer Services
is aimed at restricting access to various sites on the internet. The
program, called "CyberPatrol" will restrict access to "mainly porno-graphic
sites," according to Clark.
Most people can't under-stand
why I did what I did
-Tim Allen
in Beijing, China.
"It was an extraordinary
experience," she said. "But it
was totally misrepresented in
the media. They made it sound
like a catastrophe." Ruether
participated on four or five dif-ferent
panels, speaking on
women and religion and
ecofeminism, which argues
that healing the relationships
between men and women and
classes and nations will help
heal the earth.
Ruether is a
Catholic feminist
theologian who
teaches at Garrett
Theological Semi-nary.
Ruether uses an ecofeminist
theology in her book Gala and
God. The book calls people to
transform the way they symbol-ize
the interrelations of men
and women, humans and
earth, humans and the divine,
and the divine and earth.
The gospelfest show will go on
by Brent Ray
g.ospelfest '96, a time
when gospel choirs
from around the
Chicago area come
to North Park and
worship through
music, has been rescheduled
for a to-be-announced date in
late April.
The concert, originally
scheduled for February 25 and
sponsored by the Black Stu-dent
Association (BSA), was
postponed due to difficulty in
getting choirs to perform.
"Frankly," said Pete Ousley,
BSA president, "February is a
tight month, and it is hard to get
choirs in here. February is a
month when every black orga-nization
is asked to show
itself...and every gospel choir in
the area commits to numerous
singing engagements."
Another consideration was
financial. "We usually only pay
a headliner," Ousley explained.
"If we were to pay every choir,
we would not have a budget."
Since BSA cannot pay much
for choirs to sing at North Park,
performing here is low on the
list of priorities. The exact
amount each choir asks for or
receives varies. Sometimes it is
as little as $15 to cover travel-ing
costs, but BSA tries to give
$50 to each choir as a general
stipend. "However," Ousley
said, "that amount greatly
increases with a professional
headliner. Headliners can
range from $300-$600."
While postponing the
Gospelfest was frustrating,
BSA is still planning on spon-soring
a gospel concert. They
are looking at a late April date
because, "there is no logical
reason why choirs would have
a lot of engagements in the
month of April that we could
think of, so we decided that
would be a better time," said
Ousley.
Another reason April may be
a better time for the concert is
that the head-line attraction
sought by BSA, Grammy
award winner, Pop Staples,
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may be able to perform then.
"Pop was going to be our head-liner
[for the February 25 con-cert]
but he had oral surgery, so
he could not perform." Now that
the concert has been pushed
back, Ousley is optimistic about
Pop Staples' performing. "He
may be able to make a late
April date," said Ousley.
Ousley sees the latter date
as also being beneficial
because, "it is close to the end
of the year and there are not a
lot of other activities going on
throughout campus."
This is the fifth year BSA will
sponsor the Gospelfest, and it
is something Ousley believes in
strongly. The Gospelfest "is a
cultural expression. Gospel
music is something that is part
of the culture in the African-
American community," he said.
"What BSA intends to do is
offer the campus activities and
events which increase cultural
understanding about the
African-American students and
about the larger American cul-ture."
Continued from page 1
Ruether is the author or editor
of over 25 books including Sex-ism
and God-Talk, Woman-
Church, Contemporary Catholi-cism
and The Wrath of Jonah.
"All my writing plays into my
interests and all my interests
play into my writing," said
Ruether.
Ruether also writes regularly
for such journals as The
National Catholic Reporter and
Sojourners. She is a board
member for the Palestine
Human Rights Center in
Jerusalem, Catholics for a Free
Choice and the Chicago Center
for Peace Studies.
"Become more alive, more
aware," Ruether urges North
Park students. "Use your body
and your mind."
Midterm
shiest;
examined
by Peri Stone
ji
rofessors were
encouraged not to
assign papers or
give tests for
semester classes
March 4-8.
Professors of quad classes
had complained that students
were too busy during the last
week of their quad classes,
according to Dean Ebner, dean
of faculty: "Everything piled up."
In addition, when North Park
made the move from trimesters
to semesters in the fall of 1993,
keeping the last quad week
free was an original under-standing.
In December 11's faculty
meeting, Ebner reminded the
faculty to "avoid papers and
exminations during the last
week of quad terms," according
the meeting's mintues. "I'm not
saying [the professors] can't do
it," said Ebner. "But it'd be
appreciated if they could move
it around." Ebner noted that
many professors had already
planned tests and papers into
their schedule for the last week
of quad terms well in advance.
He hopes that as professors
plan semester classes for the
future, "they will stay away from
that week. Spread it around. It's
better for everyone."
onversation
What are you doing
for Spring Break,
and what does the
abbreviation "SW'
stand for?
By Lukas Eklund and
John Skarip.:''
Miami
rm SA
.Student
rson, Sr
in Chicago dur-reak,
and the SA
Student Associa-son
Fisk, Sr
01 going to St.Petersburg,
Florida. No, I don't know
what SA stands for."
-Olga Ravasi, So
..•04s9iug4s.k,.
THE CITIBANK FUND
YOU FAST, EASY, NO TO
CATION - GREEK"
MOTIVATED INDIVIDU
$500 IN ON4 "I'm going to Minnesota
to start planning my wed-ding.
The SA stands for
the Student Associa-tion."
-Martha Pates, Sr
11
r-
A
Fresh,
HOW AM
by Anji Ecker
T he Java Haus will
soon be getting a
"face-lift," said SA
President Aaron
Olson. The senate
passed legislation two weeks
ago to spend $2,000 on new
hanging lights to replace the
current fixtures. Getting new
lighting in Java Haus was the
"big thing that we have been
working towards all year,"
explained Liz Smith, co-man-ager
of the coffee shop.
Smith, along with co-man-ager
Sten Anderson, chose this
project to improve the atmo-sphere
of Java Haus. They will
be able to get rid of the haz-ardous
web of extension cords
which currently connects all the
table lamps. The co-managers
hope to make it more inviting,
so that even more people will
use the coffee house in the
basement of Burgh Hall.
"We are replacing the lamps
that we have now with hanging,
stained glass lamps that are
tiffany-style," explained Smith.
"We originally wanted to hang
one lamp over each table, but
because the lights are pretty
expensive - $200-$250 per light
(with the half off discount they
are receiving) - so it looks like
we will only be able to get six or
seven. But because of the size
of the lights, six or seven will be
plenty. We might even get one
floor lamp," said Smith.
According to Smith, it wasn't
hard to get the money through
legislation. "Because SA is for
the students and the money
was going towards Java Haus,
which is primarily for the stu-dents,
it passed very easily,"
explained Smith. "Aaron Olson
was really instrumental in get-ting
this to happen." The project
is being funded with $1,500
from SA's General Fund and
the profits from Java Haus this
year, which total between
$700-$800.
Last year's big project for
Java Haus was the purchase of
a new stereo. "We would like to
continue making changes,"
said Smith. "For this year, the
new lighting will be about all we
can afford. But we do having lit-tle
things we'd like to do like get
more things on the walls and
add a suggestion box."
The managers hope to see
More outside groups come in to
use the Java Haus. "Bands are
Pretty expensive, so that would
be hard for us to do unless they
Want to play for free, but we
Would like to get some people
in, like a poetry reading group
from Jesus People that we
have been trying to get in here
all year," explained Smith.
"This is really only Java
Haus' third year and there are
Many changes that could be
Made," said Smith. "But I think
so far it has been really suc-cessful."
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Andrews, referring to other
After Hours programs like soc-cer
and after-school tutoring.
Plug-In is the spiritual aspect
of After Hours and, Andrews
said, "The spiritual aspect is the
most important aspect. That
can never be compromised."
"We build relationships with
the kids," said first-year student
Brita Moon who, along with
about 25 other North Park stu-dents,
volunteers for the pro-gram.
"If the kids see that you are
interested and really want to
know about them and their
views, they will be more open
to listen to you," said Andrews.
"It's like your basic youth
group," said first-year student
and Plug -In volunteer Kristin
Janes. Most of these kids, how-ever,
have never experienced
anything like "your basic youth
group." This is a brand new
concept to them.
"I thought it would be boring,"
said seventh-grader Diamond
Wright. "But the first day I got
here I liked it. It was really
exciting." Now Wright comes
every Thursday. She likes the
leaders, saying they're, "very
funny, very intelligent people."
Thursday afternoons, the
game room in Magnuson Cam-pus
Center is open to the stu-dents
for about half an hour
after school. Then at 3:30 they
move into the Cranny for mixer
games, worship in song, a talk
from one of the leaders and
then a time of feedback and
.ftenued from page 1
more personal sharing in small
groups of five or six with two
leaders each. Then the stu-dents
are allowed back into the
game room for another half
hour until North Park vans start
taking them home.
"Thursday is not the main
focus," said Andrews, "It's just
a gateway for the kids." Thurs-days
give the leaders the
opportunity to begin and con-tinue
developing relationships.
The real ministry, according to
Andrews, takes place outside
of Plug-In when leaders meet
with their small groups during
the week.
Since the program's incep-tion
last fall, the number of stu-dents
attending has been
steadily rising. According to
carefully monitored attendance
records, last fall there were
about 20 kids attending each
week's meetings. This
semester there are 32 consis-tent
kids, and the numbers
keep rising.
"We have an emphasis on
quality, not quantity," Andrews
said. "But with quality, the
quantity does come."
The more kids come, the
more leaders are needed. "We
have a really good team of indi-viduals
and we're always look-ing
for volunteers," said Moon.
"It helps you get involved in our
community. You can live in a
complete bubble at North Park
if you don't get out there."
Interested individuals can
call Paul Andrews at ext. 4796.
STUDY IN 1SRAEL
WJ fe InI I 71 P view"'
A bill tightening U.S. sanc-tions
against Cuba was
passed by the House of Repre-sentatives
in a 336-86 vote
Wednesday. The bill would tar-get
foreign companies doing
business in Cuba in an attempt
to block foreign investment.
The legislation is in response to
the downing of two U.S.-based
planes flown by anti-Castro
exiles by Cuban MiGs two
weeks ago.
Two suicide bombings on
Sunday and Monday in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by
members of the militant Islamic
group, Hamas claimed 32 lives.
Israeli and Palestinian forces
struck at Hamas Wednesday,
making arrests and raiding their
strongholds. Palestinian Presi-dent
Yasser Arafat, under pres-sure
from Israel and the United
States to halt the bombings,
said he was taking "very big
and tough measures" against
Names. Arafat sent police into
the Islamic University in Gaza
in search of weapons and
activists.
Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole swept Tuesday's GOP
presidential primaries, winning
all eight of the primary elections
held. Former Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander and Indiana
Sen. Richard Lugar announced
their withdrawls and now are
supporting Dole. Steve
Forbes announced that he is
now endorsed by Jack Kemp,
former Republican congress-man
from New York.
Attorney F.Lee Bailey,
who helped defend O.J.
Simpson on murder charges,
has been ordered to serve a
six-month jail term. Bailey has
been involved in a dispute
with the U.S. government
over a drug smuggler's
assets. He was told to report
to U.S. Marshals in Florida by
5p.m. EST Wednesday to
begin his sentence, which
was assigned for contempt of
court.
NASA has had more
problems with the booster
rockets that put the shuttle
Columbia into orbit. Some of
the 0-ring seals were burned
during the most recent
launch. NASA said the seals
were not damaged enough to
cause a catastrophe like the
Challenger explosion, but
they are still concerned. Next
week mission managers will
decide if the problem is seri-ous
enough to delay the
March 21 flight of space shut-tle
Atlantis, which is sched-uled
to dock with the Russian
space station Mir.
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•
by John Skarin
'.0ret ever consider travel bYlrain if you're short of time.
Ws the slowest possible way of transporting your body
between two locations, with a 'possible exception of
MOOn Walking across the continent.
If you have time, and if you are a foreigner, you
can buy a USA'reil.pass. This gives you a chance to experience
unlimited traveling in a country that has more to show than just
the North Park College campus.
The idea of a rail pass was born in Europe where it is very pop-ler
among young people to buy a Euro rail pass, which equals
one long month on ugly trains small trains, smelly trains in
strange countries far awayfrornhome. The American equivalent
Amtrak, is not that diverse or complex
in trying to create a feeling of iThat it's like to travel with Amtrak ,
I've divided the experience into the five human senses: sight,
hearing, tbuch, taste, and smell - which hopefully will help you
feel like you were right there with me. .
Wit: Along its train rollite•the train will run through rural areas that
makes you forget you're living in the 1990's. Sights you've only
Seen in your imagination will pass by at an unreal pace
Advice: The 14 hours on the train "Desert Wind" between Salt
Lake City and Denver Will blow you away. It's on this route the
movie Linder Siege 2 was shot.
Itetailitg: A survival kit on the train includes a Walkman and some- ,.
thing to read: These articles are crucial for your own Well-being,
unless, thatis, you:don't mind discussing San Diego's:history and
political background for 28 hours straight with your seatmate.
Advice: Bring something that will keep you occupied for some
or go insane: Beirib:a really, really good bOok.
Touch: The seats are very comfortable. It's kind of like flying in busi-ness
class, with a few obvious exceptions (no free drinks.)
Strolling around, and hanging out in the lounge/sightseeing car is
un. Its also a good way•to meet the vagabonds like you to share
your stories with.
Advice: Bring a.pillow and a blanket if you're nail • ling :in the
sleeping car.
:
Taste : The food is OK, but adds up to become an economic bur-den.
Also, you get pretty darn tired of engulfing greasy Amtrak
Piizas. (It's a bad sign when you start to miss ARAMAAK)
Bring your own bottled water and a loaf of bread. This will
Nell your 'hunger for a day or so.
SOL If you smell burned emergency brakes it's a sure sign that
something is Wrong. Accidents occur frequently, drunk drivers who
are out during nighttime somehow manage to miss the red signal
and not til'tictil4 )eft After the Athtrot train has hit their car.
Advice: Don't ask the cdriductors aboard what happened. They
WM tell you all the details .0
traveling byln n . 'Enjoy! 11:1 ACILIZT(41
• • •
-4)y Peri Stone
fter a 20.-hour train
ride, my roommate,
Tina CemPain, And I
.,began to Eitickp..4.els
around
ittinS Our first.:Stop W .
libtaryie..b.*nroonie to ..
change our SW4fdrenCheci
:clothes. .
We were traveling in ,e,..0orn-
OefetOie*Viittik Neither lam
ily nor friends knew .0fere we
were; we had:.no:place..tri..stay
and were equipped only with
sparsely-p.aqeditiattipacks.
The lack OF gave us
. real abbreOition toeStpoyOrk,„..
The lack of steep ,. •
Wanderings whiCh. -provide ,
many chances to meet iriterest1.
ing people
:Tina and I braved Bourbon
Street for less than an: hour I
each night, avoiding the ,froth4...•
ing puddle's Of beer Shards Of
broken bottles and hoards Of
men chanting Vulgar and
alarming commands. We were
saddened by the ...people
scrambling " to guzzle More.
liquor Or smoke more pot to
numb their pain. We sensed a
feeling . of emptiness in the
seemingly jovial ,.clubs and
bars..
Deciding against the adver-tised
live orgies, Tina and I
opted for a brightly-lit 24-hour
haven, Cafe DuMonde, jgc.ateo.•
in the center of the French
Quarter. We indulged in cheap:
and heavenly beignets, a deli-•
cate doughnut-like pastry :
dusted with powder sugar, and
. . .
Cale au lait, Cafe Dursilonde , .
provided e perfect outdoor spot
to eye the busy street and
enjoy the Warm'ajr.l.
wri9rizkyc.if-werenl at the cafe.
darit4thel:flight, we Walked on
path along the Mississippi
Aiver. We met Racine a shoe:
ahine, who shared his life strug-gles
of growing up on the
wiselikepend thelittle rrione
_
Wefied left.
• • But.
. our
next
meal
cost
'us .
116#1".
streets. of Chicago...and Jacing Tina
befriended .a togal name Bal
who happened to be a gebrme
Cajun Cook. We followed him t
'*••• his shabby cabby hole wher
he served thebest chicken an
rice I've ever tasted. He the
gave us an '!underground" tou
of New Qrleans, revealing tid
bits of history that only a loca
could know.
We discovered the rich pas
of the buildings and the store
and the people on the street
He even introduced us to hi
friends and encouraged us t
come back the next summer t
work, promising big bucks. •
As Tina and I headed back
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couple years of your life doing
something you really like and
getting paid for it. Of course I'd
like that, but I'm not holding my
breath." All of the guys do
agree, however, that their
favorite thing about being in
Precious Macintosh is getting
to play with their best friends.
"It isn't our crack musician-ship
which holds the band
together — heck, I had never
even picked up a bass until a
month before out first recording
— but the close friendship we
have," said Anderson.
Precious Macintosh has
been encouraged by the rave
reviews from their first show.
Pappenfus believes that it is
their unique sound that truly
sets them apart. "I think Brian
(Palmberg) is a great song
writer," said Pappenfus. "He
comes up with all kinds of
changes that sound so original.
It doesn't sound like Blues
Traveler, or The Dead, or REM,
it's distinctly Precious Macin-tosh."
Fleuretta King will speak at
Java Haus on Black Femi-nism
and Womanism
Tuesday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m.
A Faculty Recital: Julie Zum-steg
(cello) and Kimberly
Schmidt (piano)
music from Rachmaninoff,
Stravinsky and Bach
March 20 at 8:15 p.m. in
Anderson Chapel
FREE
One Woman, One Vote
movie/discussion on suffrage
Movement - in Java Haus
Sunday, March 24 at 9:30
An outing to the Jane
Addams Hill House Museum
Saturday, March 30
Still Killing Us Softly
movie/discussion on media's
effect on women
Sunday, March 31 at 9:30 p.m.
in Java Haus
Spring Play: Easter
March 28, 29, 30 at 8 p.m. and
March 31 at 3 p.m.
LHA
$3 students, $10 general
Information: (312) 244-5644
International Women's Day
Rally & March
Rally at the Federal Plaza
Friday, March 8 at 12 p.m.
Forum/Teach-In "Bejing and
Beyond":Women's Rights to
Economic Justice
Saturday, March 9 from 9:30-4
P.m. at DePaul University
1 East Jackson
tickets are $5
Information: (312) 641-5151
Meet & Greet Chicago NOW
"Endorsed" Candidates
endorsement party hosted by
Chicago's NOW Political Action
Committee
Sunday, March 10 from 4-6
p.m. at 1733 N. Hoyne
FREE
Reservations: (312) 922-0025
Bluegrass pioneer Ralph
Stanley brings Mountain
Melodies to the Old Town
School
Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. and
10 p.m.
909 West Armitage Ave.,
Chicago
tickets are $15
Information: (312) 525-7793
Lounge Ax presents Jad Fair
and Wuhling
Friday, March 8
2438 N. Lincoln, Chicago
OOOOOO
By Kristina Klockars
The lights were dim, the
mood was set. and the first
Show of Precious Macintosh
Was about to begin. They
Opened up for Sally Rides
Rocketships at Phyllis' Musical
Inn on Valentine's Day to a
large crowd -most of whom
Were North Parkers.
The members of Precious
Macintosh, Brian Palmberg,
Chris Pappenfus, Jon Young,
Matt Landin and Keith Ander-son
all met their first year at
North Park, but it wasn't until
their third year that they
decided to form a band.
"We decided to form a band
One night when we were watch-
!dg one of our favorite movies
One More Saturday Night.' It is
kind of a 1980 junior high cult
Classic," explained Keith Ander-
Son. "One of the best scenes
has a band named 'Badmouth'
With Al Franken, playing a gig
In St. Paul, Minn., at the
iKabooze: The song was goofy
Information: (312) 525-6620
T-Bone and Gospel Gangstas
also: Soul Food 76 and
Lazarus
March 23 at 6 p.m. at the Won-derland
Auditorium
310 E. Chicago Ave., Elgin
Information: (847) 888-8670
Sixpence None the Richer,
Dime Store Prophets and
Black Eyed Sceva
Wednesday, March 27 at True
Tunes Upstairs
Information: (708) 665-3813
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The Peace Museum Grand
Re-Opening
Music (jazz guitar), great food
and poetry readings
Sunday, March 10 from 2-6
p.m.
314 W. Institute Place, 1st
Floor (one block north of the
Chicago Avenue stop to the
Ravenswood El)
$15 for non-members
*regular hours are Tuesday-
Saturday 11-5 (admission is
$3.50)
Information: (312) 440-1860
The Science of Aromather-apy
Get in touch with your sense of
smell!
Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m. at
North Pier, third level
435 East Illinois Street,
Chicago
Information: (312) 871-2668
A Discovery Tour of The
Aztec, The Maya and Their
Predecessors
Sunday, March 10 at 11:30 &
2:30 p.m.
The Field Musuem, Roosevelt
Road at Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago
Information: (312) 322-8859
The Visiting Artists Program
at the School of the Art Insti-tute
March 11—Berebuce Reynaud,
who has most recently
explored Chinese video and art
and related issues of cultural
and sexual identity, will lecture.
March 25—Jay Rosenblatt is a
San Francisco filmmaker and
therapist in a psychiatric unit;
his films deal with the pyschol-ogy
of the human mind.
280 S. Columbus Dr., Chicago
FREE to students and staff of
area colleges
Information: (312) 443-3711
Sun Fest: Vernal Equinox
Celebration at the Adler Plan-etarium
Make your own pocket sundial!
Wednesday, March 20 at 11
a.m. to 4 p.m.
1300 South Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago
Information: (312) 322-0304
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'Precious Macintosh"
and fun and we decided right
then that we wanted to form a
band so we could cover 'Don't
Lie To Me' by Badmouth." The
band still hasn't covered the
song though.
Precious Macintosh started
out with Young, Anderson,
Palmberg and Landin. Pap-penfus
recalls when he first
came into the band. "I guess
they felt they were lacking a
lead singer, and that's when I
wandered into the room. We
hashed through a few Grateful
Dead charts and some REM
and had a good old time," he
said.
The name for the band
comes from Landin's dad who
was a teacher in the 1960s and
had a student named Precious
Macintosh who ended up going
to Vietnam. Landin's father
didn't think about him again
until 20 years later when he
saw Precious' name in the
paper. He had been brought up
on murder charges. 'The name
just has that cool ring to it," said
Anderson. Precious Macintosh
recorded one tape last spring,
Mello Pad, a compilation of
covers including REM, Grateful
Dead, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon
and Blues Traveler. They plan
to record their original songs in
a studio in the near future.
Although Landin and Palmberg
predominantly write the songs,
all of the band members con-tribute.
The band looks at this expt-rience
as a fun college phase,
but most of the members do
not feel the band will continue
after graduation. "The lifestyle
of a touring band isn't all that
appealing to me,- said Pap-penfus.
'Would I like to go pro-fessional?
That's like asking if
you'd like to spend the next
Before
and After
Movie Review
by Greg Harms
In everyone's life there
comes an event that changes
everything that happens after-ward.
Before, life is innocent
and naive. After, it is filled with
knowledge and experience.
Before and After explores this
process in a family whose 16-
year-old son is accused of
murder.
Carol and Ben Ryan (Meryl
Streep and Liam Neeson) are
a wealthy couple in the town
of Hyland whose son, Jacob
(Furlong), is accused of the
murder of a local girl. The
whole family must grapple
with the changes that this
brings to their life. The movie
deals with the process of the
Ryans moving from their
before, through the process of
the trial, to their after.
Before the murder, the
Ryans were a typical family
who believed that life was
good, and that nothing bad
could happen to innocent peo-ple.
However, they soon learn
otherwise as their before
comes crashing down.
Carol comes to believe in
her son's innocence, and
believes that the truth will set
him free. Ben believes that
Jacob is guilty but is willing to
do anything to protect him
from justice, including lying
and destroying evidence. In
order to get an acquittal for
Jacob, he hires a lawyer
(Molina) who is willing to com-promise
the truth. Carol fights
the lawyer every inch of the
way, because of her belief in
the truth.
The struggle between the
lawyer and Carol Ryan leads
to family tension that the
Ryans must, and eventually
do, work through. After the
trial, they have learned that
the world is a dark place. They
are disillusioned by a justice
system that punishes innocent
people along with the guilty,
and whole families along with
the accused.
Ted Tally's script wonder-fully
fills the characters with
life. He is able to flesh out
...The acting makes
the movie a riveting
experience.
every little aspect of the
Ryans' personalities. The
script is enhanced by the
superb acting on every actor's
part. Although the point is not
always clear, the acting makes
the movie a riveting experi-ence.
Neeson delivers the
best performance, portraying
the confused but loving father,
torn between belief in his
son's guilt and love for his
son. Streep compliments him
wonderfully, portraying the lov-ing
mother who completely
believes in her son's inno-cence.
The wonderful ensem-ble
acting is what truly brings
this intense, powerful, and
enjoyable movie to life.
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The Prayers of a Selfish Child
by Mark Ake Larson
A friend
and I have
started
exchanging
random
questions
and
answers
just for fun.
Questions
like "What do you fear most?"
or "What would it take to get
you to stop smoking?" Some
answers are short; others fill a
whole page. One of my
answers not only filled a whole
page, but it also really got me
thinking. She asked, "What did
you pray for as a child?"
I remember praying for the
safety of my family, and that I
would get the presents I
wanted for Christmas. I prayed
that Jesus would come back
the summer before seventh
grade started because seventh
grade was junior high, and you
took the city bus to junior high,
and I was afraid of the city bus.
And I was convinced that Jesus
wouldn't make me ride on city
buses. More seriously, I
prayed for the starving children
in Africa that Sally Struthers
would show on TV, and the
missionaries that our church
supported.
All these things are fairly
common for children to pray
for, but I also had a very
strange prayer habit: I prayed
for things in the past. I prayed
for the African slaves and
Native Americans. I couldn't
imagine what it was like for
their families to be torn apart,
for children to be carried away
or see their fathers being
beaten and their mothers being
raped. I prayed for people that
I didn't know and that were
already dead, believing that
God back then knew that I
would be praying now and He
would answer my prayers and
make it easier for the people
who were going through
intense trials.
I also prayed for Biblical
characters that I liked. My
favorite book was Ruth and I
prayed that God would give her
the strength to stand up for her
oppressed people. I prayed for
Paul in jail, the little children
who came to Jesus, the boy
with the loaves and fishes, the
lepers, and the Israelites under
Pharaoh. I also prayed for the
Christians persecuted by Nero,
and the people tortured by the
Church in the Middle Ages.
I often felt that my prayers
200 to 3000 years after the fact
had made an impact on what
had happened in history. I
can't say whether or not they
really did. I suppose one could
find all kinds of crazy argu-ments
on either side of the
coin. I don't really care to find
logical or Biblical proof either
way. I still do it because pray-ing
over what is on my heart
helps even if it is an intense
hurt caused by injustices of the
past.
What has changed in the
way I pray for the past now and
the way I did as a child is what
comes after the Amen. As a
child, I prayed for the
oppressed and then I went out
to play, quickly forgetting the
short-lived sorrow my heart had
felt after seeing pictures of
oppression. As an adult, I pray
that my sorrow will move me to
action. As a child, I prayed and
walked away, just as selfish as
I had been before. As an adult,
a prayer for the oppressed peo-ple
followed by the continuation
of a selfish lifestyle is nothing
but childish.
A child asks his parent for a
gift and has no input into the
money or effort needed to
attain that gift. If adults want
something, they have to work
for it. Christians love to pray for
world peace; they love to pray
that Christ will come and set up
His Kingdom on earth. I
believe that it is time that we,
as Christians, begin following
up our prayers for peace with
action. By actually helping our
Heavenly Parent in providing
the gift, we may just be able to
receive it.
Jesus as President
by Matt Landin
It's an elec-tion
year!
All the pres-idential
can-didates
are
going to be
taking
stands on
the big
American
issues that divide this nation.
Although the candidates do not
agree on many issues, they all
claim to be Christian. What,
then, is Christian?
Where would Jesus stand if
he were running for President
of the United States?
Abortion—Jesus, the Bible
Belt conservative Republican:
For some reason, this sub-ject
always seems to come up
more around March, Women's
History Month, as if it were
strictly a women's issue. I'm
sorry to let all you pro-choicers
down but there is no way that
Jesus would ever be pro-choice.
If Mary was living in our
time, Jesus probably would
have been aborted. Of course
6 March 1 1996
there is no scriptural backing
for pro-life, but it makes sense.
Is there any occasion when you
could possibly see Jesus con-doning
an abortion? I can pic-ture
the verse now "I haveth
three words for thou: A-dop-tion."
Even after a rape, the baby
is still one of God's children.
There should be no exceptions
in Christian ethics, not even
with rape; this sort of teaching
may seem almost impossible to
Capital Punishment -
Jesus t the bleeding-heart
iiberal Demo-crat...
follow by human standards, but
that is the case with so many of
Jesus' teachings.
Capital Punishment—Jesus,
the bleeding-heart liberal
Democrat:
Jesus not only taught of the
evil of murder, but also of the
evil of anger and revenge.
"Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you"
(Mt 5: 44).
Jesus would no doubt spend
endless tax dollars on rehabili-tation
and criminal care. Even
the most gruesome serial
killers would not be sent to the
electric chair under Jesus'
administration.
Welfare/ unemployment/
elderly care—Jesus, the
Socialist:
Oh boy, there go our tax dol-lars!
"I tell you the truth, what-ever
you did for one of the least
of these brothers of mine, you
did for me" (Mt 25: 40). Some-how,
I don't think Jesus would
be backing big business, capi-talist
ideals or even the Ameri-can
dream.
Actually, a society under
Jesus' rule would not be able to
exist because of man's selfish
tendencies. Even today's
Socialist nations don't compare
to the type of government that
Jesus would create.
I know it is impossible for
man to live by God's standards;
but it is strange that in a Chris-tian
nation, many of our major
laws clash so harshly with the
teachings of Jesus.
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Womanonymity
by Erin Heiser
Who invented the cotton gin? Most educated Americans
would answer "Eli Whitney." I learned his name in fifth grade,
and I haven't forgotten it. His name is what went down in the
( history books and his name is what we are i)taught. Just recently I came across a little
known fact: actually, it was a woman named
Catherine Green who designed the cotton gin
and also came up with the money to back the
invention. But who has ever heard of her? She
has been anonymous throughout history. She is
only one of many anonymous women.
March is National Women's History Month. For the occasion,
the Committee on Gender Issues has been handing out but-tons
and bookmarks and planning events which work to create
awareness about women's history and to celebrate the accom-plishments
of our sisters. There has been much confusion over
one particular button that hosts the slogan: "Anonymous was
a WOMAN." The fact that so many students don't understand
the slogan proves the point that the slogan makes.
Recently I heard a student complain about one of his classes
in which the syllabus consisted of all women writers and only
one man. He said this was a great injustice and that it was
"irresponsible" not to equally represent men. When I pointed
out that the situation is usually reversed, he agreed. He said
he had sat through classes in which male writers are featured,
never giving the issue a second thought. Further, he conceded
that probably still, he would have "no problem" with sitting
through a class where male authors were being taught. Men's
history still makes up the abundance of the curricula, but he
saw his professor's choice in material as a spiteful act of
reverse discrimination.
History, however, is filled with women. Female writers, artists,
pilots, and inventors were movers and shakers of society. And
although some significant gains have been made within the
lastl 0 years or so, an abundance of important women's history
is still being left out of the classroom.
Several women, such as "George Eliot," used to publish
under a man's name, because the instant a publisher saw a
woman's name, he disregarded the piece. Oftentimes a woman
painter's name would be scratched off of her painting and
replaced by a man's name – usually that of her husband, father
or brother.
Another piece of history often overlooked is the women's suf-frage
movement. I did not even hear about it until my third year
in college. Sadly, the first time I voted, I had never even heard
most of the names of the women who ceaselessly fought for
my right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell,
and Alice Paul were among the hundreds and hundreds of
women who marched, wrote letters, and lobbied for women's
suffrage. But how many non-history majors know this?
It is a great injustice for any institution of higher learning not
to see to it that half of the earth's population be equally and
accurately represented. Women have been anonymous for far
too long.
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Sally Rides On...
Dear editor,
Since I am an American of
Norwegian extraction, I was
really ticked off by Per Johans-son's
letter in the last College
News. Just because Mette Lof-blad
doesn't know some old
sixties song, that gives him the
right to declare that "Norwe-gians
have no soul?"
What gall! What arrogance!
Tell me, what is it about
Swedes that makes them so
damn smug? I mean, these are
the people who gave us Abba
and Ace of Base! So which eth-nic
group has soul and which
doesn't?
Per Johansson—you and
your fellow Swedes wouldn't
know a good band if it bit you in
the ass!
Ted Anderson
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AIDS/HIV hits home
Dear editor,
I truly appreciate the mes-sage
of Mike O'Sullivan's col-umn
in the March 1, 1996 issue
of "The College News." I also
appreciate Mr. O'Sullivan's
artistic abilities. But I want to
challenge a stereotype that he
perpetuates in his cartoon. As
someone whose life has been
repeatedly touched by
AIDS/HIV - my uncle died a
year ago, my sister-in-law 12
years ago, and her daugh-ter/
my niece struggles daily
with her ARC (AIDS Related
Complex) status - I know that it
is not only the half-drunk,
nearly naked who attack those
with AIDS/HIV. Fully clothed,
non-drinkers, male and female
spew out the same garbage as
the character in the cartoon.
Due to their fear and igno-rance,
many well-meaning peo-ple
have continued to blame
the victims of this horrible virus.
While these misguided individ-uals
are busy wasting time,
money, and energy chastising
others about their lack of
"virtue," AIDS/HIV spreads. As
Mr. O'Sullivan points out,
AIDS/HIV will touch all of our
lives. I pray that we can get
past the name-calling and work
together to find a cure and sup-port
those living with AIDS/HIV.
Koby Lee-Forman, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Education History
GOAL Program Advisor
Attention IR Rovers
of the
written word:
Dropping classes at
the quad?
Have a little free time?
The North Park
College News
is diligently
seeking
writers.
(No previous journalism
experience necessary.)
You're invited to
drop in and join us at
one of our Monday
night meetings,
9:30-10pm in the
basement of the Stu-dent
Services build-ing.
Can't wait to see ya...
alb Lacking Tile Call
by Mark Erickson
Alyosha
would have
found it
strange and
impossible
to go on liv-ing
as
before. It is
written:
"Give all
that thou hast to the poor and
follow Me, if thou wouldst be
perfect." Alyosha said to him-self:
"I can't give two rubles
instead of 'all,' and only go to
mass instead of 'following
Him." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
Ttofatte
Every year I read articles in
The College News written by
reflective seniors looking back
on all they have learned and
experienced at North Park.
Reflection is a shared experi-ence
for many seniors. Per-haps
it is a mechanism of cop-ing
with an uncertain future.
Whatever the reason, I find
myself beginning to reflect on
my journey the past four years.
I remember my freshman year
especially well.
I remember studying physics
on Saturday afternoons in the
library. I remember missing my
family and good friends, who
were slowly becoming more
distant, although I did not real-ize
it at the time. I remember
the slow process of meeting
people and gaining close
friends, many of whom will be
life-long friends. We spent
many hours in late-night dis-cussions
in the first floor hall-way
of Sohlberg. At the risk of
irritating slumbering neighbors
and the quick-tempered RA,
we enjoyed the process of
struggling through the impor-tant
issues of life.
I struggled with my future,
and to what vocation God was
calling me. I wondered if God
really finds any value in
physics. I remember asking a
BTS major in the basement of
the library what he thought I
should do with my life. After all,
he was a BTS major. Shouldn't
he have an enlightened vision
of what vocation is pleasing to
God? He told me that I can
serve God just as well if I do
physics as if I were a mission-ary
or a pastor. I remember not
being content with his answer.
Maybe, I was not asking the
right question.
Now I am a BTS major and a
physics major, and I still do not
have an enlightened vision Of
God's call for my life. I am try-ing
to decide whether God is
calling me to a prestigious
Engineering graduate school,
which will certainly give me a
promising, successful future, or
to follow an unknown path that
leads me to a hurting world in
need of the love of Christ. I am
beginning to think that "The
Call" that many seem to expe-rience,
and that I have hoped
for, may not come at all.
Maybe all Christians are simply
supposed to take Jesus'
instructions on compassion
seriously. A couple of weeks
ago, Bart Campolo wondered
why, as a rule, pastors are
called to bigger churches with
larger salaries – certainly not to
small inner city churches with
low budgets, high crime, and a
large amount of need. He won-dered
why, as a rule, Christians
tend to drift toward successful
middle- class careers, waiting
to be divinely selected for
God's service, instead of drift-ing
towards radical Christian
service to the poor.
Maybe "The Call" has
become an excuse for many. It
is easy not to feel called to a
life that terrifies you in many
ways, does not make you a
success or fulfill the American
Dream, and is very uncertain.
As for me, I do not know what
path I will choose. I hope that
my decision is based on a
response to Christ, not simply
the lack of a call. As Chris-tians,
we cannot use the lack of
a call as an excuse for not fol-lowing
Jesus.
March 1 1996 7
Photo by Lukas Eklund
Junior bin Osella aims a solid kick at the ball during the women's soc-cer
season last fall.
Recruiting close to home
by James Cook
Commentary
To become a successful program, a winning program,
North Park's soccer program must be able to recruit
from the city of Chicago. North Park is situated on a
soccer gold mine in the Windy City. The question is,
how can North Park take advantage of it? On the cur-rent
roster, not one player hails from the city. Why is this? Why
the inability to recruit from its own backyard? With schools like
Admundsen, Foreman, and Lane Tech relatively close by, why
hasn't North Park focused on the surplus of talent that is coming
out of these schools?
Men's soccer coach Peter Roman addressed the problem: "In
the fall, when the boy's teams play, I just don't have the time to
go see them play," he explained. "And in the spring, I coach the
women's softball team, so my time is extremely limited. But there
is no doubt that we need to make a concentrated effort to try and
get some of these kids to consider North Park as an option."
Roman went on to explain some of the other difficulties in
recruiting. "We're not allowed to talk to players face to face until
their senior year," he said. "Before that, our only means of com-munication
with (underclassmen) players is by the phone, or if
they visit the campus. It is very difficult to sell a kid on a program
that does not have a winning tradition. Our facilities are not first-rate
either; the team plays on the same field it practices on."
The positives that Roman cites in the recruiting process are
the "Covenant connection" and "word of mouth." But the prob-lem
is, as he admits, the aforementioned positive factors don't
apply, in most cases, to Chicago high school kids.
So the bottom-line is: What is going to be done to improve the
non-existent recruiting in the city?
"I need someone who can watch some of these kids and who
can give me a report that I can trust," explained Roman. "I can't
have the boy's father giving me the scouting report, because
they'll just tell you how wonderful their kid is. What we can offer
the kids is the possible opportunity to play right away and make
an impact; to stay in the city so that their family and friends can
watch them play. Once we get those first couple of city kids,
recruiting in the city will be much easier."
The initial breakthrough is always the hardest, especially when
you're trying to convince a prospect to play for a team that went
3-13 last year. However, recruiting the city's talent is just what
North Park men's soccer needs to revitalize its program.
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was a season of strug-gle
this past year for the
women's basketball
earn—a 3-22 record
suggests as much.
Much of this season's struggle
can be blamed on the fact that
the team was lacking in experi-ence,
evident by the lack of
seniors on the squad. The lack
of experience may have
caused losses to conference
foes with more experience
under their players' belts.
Despite the growing pains
the team went through, the
coach and players maintain
hope and enthusiasm, Coach
Tricia Floyd's take on the sea-son
was optimistic, but also
realistic: "We were a very
young team, with no seniors,
so experience was a problem,"
she explained. "What also hurt
us was that our point-guard
Britt Dahlstrom was in Sweden
for the first semester. When
she returned, she eventually
worked her way back into the
starting line-up. Even though
we didn't win many games, we
improved tremendously as a
team."
Coach Floyd added that for
the coming year. the goals are
to quicken the pace. "I want to
employ* fast-break, up-tempo
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To do this we will have to
press and trap on defense,"
she said.
Ultimately however, it will
come down to the player as
Coach Floyd acknowledged: "it
all depends on how hard my
players work in the summer."
One of the few bright spots
this year was the talent of first-year
student Sara Whitefield,
the starting power forward/cen-ter
who averaged 16 points and
14 rebounds a game, White-field
was recognized by NCAA
News as one of the top
rebounders in Division III.
When asked about the secret
to her rebounding success,
Whitefield replied, "I don't
know, it helps to be tall." She
added, "You have to be aggres-sive
and have that desire to
grab the ball." She also com-mented
on the team's losses.
"It was frustrating not win-ning
that much, but I had fun,"
said Whitefield of her first year
on North Park's team.
Co-captain Jerry Adamson's
opinion on the past year and
the future was similar. "This
year was a building year; we
only had four returning players
and no seniors," she says. "But
I'm looking forward to the
upcoming season."
Coach Floyd has recruited
two point-guards for the
upcoming season to relieve
Britt Dahlstrom of the pressure
of playing point; she will return
to the off-guard position. The
recruits, who are seniors in
high school this year, will be
first-year North Park students
next fall. Dahlstrom played off-guard
in high-school, and says
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Student computer lab Jerusalem eyewitness to speak
Security tightens to block tampering
by Dan Erickson
s ecurity in the computer lab will be greatly tightened next
quad. The changes are due in part to recent breaches of
computer security. "Only programs that we have autho-rized
will be able to run on the Macs," said Steve Clark,
director of f North Park's Computer Services. 'The secu-rity
package will dis-allow any non-authorized programs from run-ning,"
he explained.
A World Wide Web, page will be posted soon by Computer Ser-vices
listing all of the programs authorized to run on computer lab
computers. "Games will not be on the list," added Clark.
"That's all my fault," admitted first year student Tim Allen. Allen
has been banned from the student com-puter
lab and from the use of any
North Park computer. After using
a program which allowed him to
see other users' passwords,
Allen found himself in hot
water. He claims to have
gained access to the MacAd-ministrator
security system
password, enabling him to
bypass the security on almost
any computer in the lab. He
also managed to find out other
students' passwords to their
Eudora (e-mail) accounts.
"The only password I ever used
was the MacAdministrator password," he asserted. 'The old secu-rity
program was very loose," he said, "All it did was ensure that
you could not take anything away or add anything to the hard
drive. Somebody could have messed up that system so royally
and they never would have been caught."
Allen describes the program he used to obtain confidential
passwords as a keyboard tracer which he downloaded off the
internet. "Anytime you press a key, it records it," he explained,
"even clicks on the mouse." He would install the invisible program,
called Oasis, on a computer and wait for someone to log in. Later,
Allen could look at the log which displayed each keystroke, includ-ing
passwords.
"Most people can't understand why I did what I did," said Allen,
"I just wanted to see what I could do. How far I could carry it. [I
thought] it would.. .[be] cool to have that MacAdministrator pass-word."
While he says he is now sorry about the whole incident, Allen
41101 2
by Peri Stone
R osemary Radford
Ruether, a theolo-gian,
professor and
author, hopes to
inform the North
Park community on both femi-nist
theology and the peace
process in Jerusalem when
she leads a discussion on cam-pus
on March 27.
Although known for her work
in feminist theology, Ruether is
a recognized scholar of the
Middle East, according to Dr.
Don Wagner, director of the
Center for Middle Eastern
Studies.
"She's an eyewitness to
what is going on in Jerusalem,"
said Wagner. "You could say
she has a minor in the Middle
East."
Wagner feels that the media
has not dealt with the situation
in Jerusalem in an honest way,
commenting, "Rosemary will
bring a different perspective
than what the mainstream
media is presenting." Ruether
will explain why the peace pro-cess
is not going to work the
way it is being handled. She
will also deal with what she
feels is the lack of response
from religious communities
everywhere.
Ruether is a Catholic femi-nist
theologian who teaches at
Garrett Theological Seminary.
Her courses focus on the inter-relation
of Christian theology
and history to social justice
issues, including sexism,
racism, poverty, militarism and
ecology.
Her interests in social
issues, especially in the global-ization
of feminist theology,
have led her to places such as
Canada, Mexico, South Africa,
Israel/Palestine, England, Swe-den
and Norway. Her travels
have helped develop what she
calls "a global network of com-munication."
One of her most
recent travels was to the Inter-national
Women's Conference
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Plug-In attendees clean up after a vicious newspaper "snowball" fight. Photo by Lukas Eklund
Plug-in: youth group for city kids
by Dan Erickson
Rick Yngve and Dan
Olson won with a narrow
20-vote margin. Only NG
voters turned out for the
election out of about
1800 undergrads.
The proposed constitu-tional
revisions passed
with an overwhelming
margin.
hile most North
Parkers avoid
eye-contact and
try to move past
the junior highers
blocking the bridge during their
lunch break, senior Paul
Andrews is out making friends.
Crossing the bridge and
turning left onto Von Steuben's
field, rather than right with thd
rest of the flow of North Park-ers,
Andrews is greeted by
smiling faces. Some even ditch
a game of touch football to
hang out with him until the
lunch break ends.
Andrews is the coordinator
of Plug-In, the Urban Outreach
program dedicated to bringing
the word of Jesus Christ to the
students of Albany Park Multi-cultural
Academy, the junior
high side of Von Steuben High
School.
"This is what it's all about,"
said Andrews as he walked
onto the campus, "developing
relationships."
Even kids who've never
been to a Plug-In meeting
know about the program.
"You must be Paul," said one
boy, joining the school-yard
group at the urging of one of
his friends, a regular attender.
Andrews used this as an
opportunity to get to know the
boy and invite him to the meet-ing
right after school.
"Everyone knows [about
Plug-In], there's signs every-where
around school," said
seventh-grader Lenneah Jubi-nal,
who's been coming to the
meetings since the first one
last fall. "It's the bomb!" she
enthusiastically declared.
Plug-In is an after-school
program that "provides a safe
and nurturing environment for
the youth that attend [APMA],"
according to the After Hours
vision statement.
Plug-In is just one of sev-eral
After Hours programs
developed to help achieve this
goal. "After Hours is holistic. It
allows us to meet the kids
where they're at," said
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admits to having rationalized it in his mind while doing it. "I really
shouldn't have been doing it in the first place," he said, "It's not
my computer system, but I wasn't thinking that at the time."
Allen explained that he finally got caught when another student
in the lab noticed what he was doing and saw someone else's e-mail
password. Allen then called the student whose password
was revealed to warn them to change the no-longer-confidential
password.
Once Computer Services was informed of the security breach,
Allen was banned
from the lab and
referred to Charles
Olcese, dean of stu-dent
life. While it is
still not completely
clear what was done,
Olcese says that ultimately it could be a criminal offense. "Usu-ally
we don't take things that far," said Olcese, who also said he
would prefer to turn situations such as this into an educational
experience for the student.
The tightened security will affect at least some faculty as well as
students. Physics professor Larry Martin, who relies extensively
on the use of computers in his classroom instruction, has also
recently experienced a breach of security. "I ran a fairly open envi-ronment...
now I have to stop what I've been doing," said Martin.
Aware that no computer system can ever be completely secure,
Martin said, "In some ways I depend on ignorance to keep secu-rity."
As for whether Allen is connected in any way to the security
problems experienced by Martin, he said, "Right now I have no
reason to believe it was that student."
Another security program being installed by Computer Services
is aimed at restricting access to various sites on the internet. The
program, called "CyberPatrol" will restrict access to "mainly porno-graphic
sites," according to Clark.
Most people can't under-stand
why I did what I did
-Tim Allen
in Beijing, China.
"It was an extraordinary
experience," she said. "But it
was totally misrepresented in
the media. They made it sound
like a catastrophe." Ruether
participated on four or five dif-ferent
panels, speaking on
women and religion and
ecofeminism, which argues
that healing the relationships
between men and women and
classes and nations will help
heal the earth.
Ruether is a
Catholic feminist
theologian who
teaches at Garrett
Theological Semi-nary.
Ruether uses an ecofeminist
theology in her book Gala and
God. The book calls people to
transform the way they symbol-ize
the interrelations of men
and women, humans and
earth, humans and the divine,
and the divine and earth.
The gospelfest show will go on
by Brent Ray
g.ospelfest '96, a time
when gospel choirs
from around the
Chicago area come
to North Park and
worship through
music, has been rescheduled
for a to-be-announced date in
late April.
The concert, originally
scheduled for February 25 and
sponsored by the Black Stu-dent
Association (BSA), was
postponed due to difficulty in
getting choirs to perform.
"Frankly," said Pete Ousley,
BSA president, "February is a
tight month, and it is hard to get
choirs in here. February is a
month when every black orga-nization
is asked to show
itself...and every gospel choir in
the area commits to numerous
singing engagements."
Another consideration was
financial. "We usually only pay
a headliner," Ousley explained.
"If we were to pay every choir,
we would not have a budget."
Since BSA cannot pay much
for choirs to sing at North Park,
performing here is low on the
list of priorities. The exact
amount each choir asks for or
receives varies. Sometimes it is
as little as $15 to cover travel-ing
costs, but BSA tries to give
$50 to each choir as a general
stipend. "However," Ousley
said, "that amount greatly
increases with a professional
headliner. Headliners can
range from $300-$600."
While postponing the
Gospelfest was frustrating,
BSA is still planning on spon-soring
a gospel concert. They
are looking at a late April date
because, "there is no logical
reason why choirs would have
a lot of engagements in the
month of April that we could
think of, so we decided that
would be a better time," said
Ousley.
Another reason April may be
a better time for the concert is
that the head-line attraction
sought by BSA, Grammy
award winner, Pop Staples,
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may be able to perform then.
"Pop was going to be our head-liner
[for the February 25 con-cert]
but he had oral surgery, so
he could not perform." Now that
the concert has been pushed
back, Ousley is optimistic about
Pop Staples' performing. "He
may be able to make a late
April date," said Ousley.
Ousley sees the latter date
as also being beneficial
because, "it is close to the end
of the year and there are not a
lot of other activities going on
throughout campus."
This is the fifth year BSA will
sponsor the Gospelfest, and it
is something Ousley believes in
strongly. The Gospelfest "is a
cultural expression. Gospel
music is something that is part
of the culture in the African-
American community," he said.
"What BSA intends to do is
offer the campus activities and
events which increase cultural
understanding about the
African-American students and
about the larger American cul-ture."
Continued from page 1
Ruether is the author or editor
of over 25 books including Sex-ism
and God-Talk, Woman-
Church, Contemporary Catholi-cism
and The Wrath of Jonah.
"All my writing plays into my
interests and all my interests
play into my writing," said
Ruether.
Ruether also writes regularly
for such journals as The
National Catholic Reporter and
Sojourners. She is a board
member for the Palestine
Human Rights Center in
Jerusalem, Catholics for a Free
Choice and the Chicago Center
for Peace Studies.
"Become more alive, more
aware," Ruether urges North
Park students. "Use your body
and your mind."
Midterm
shiest;
examined
by Peri Stone
ji
rofessors were
encouraged not to
assign papers or
give tests for
semester classes
March 4-8.
Professors of quad classes
had complained that students
were too busy during the last
week of their quad classes,
according to Dean Ebner, dean
of faculty: "Everything piled up."
In addition, when North Park
made the move from trimesters
to semesters in the fall of 1993,
keeping the last quad week
free was an original under-standing.
In December 11's faculty
meeting, Ebner reminded the
faculty to "avoid papers and
exminations during the last
week of quad terms," according
the meeting's mintues. "I'm not
saying [the professors] can't do
it," said Ebner. "But it'd be
appreciated if they could move
it around." Ebner noted that
many professors had already
planned tests and papers into
their schedule for the last week
of quad terms well in advance.
He hopes that as professors
plan semester classes for the
future, "they will stay away from
that week. Spread it around. It's
better for everyone."
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by Anji Ecker
T he Java Haus will
soon be getting a
"face-lift," said SA
President Aaron
Olson. The senate
passed legislation two weeks
ago to spend $2,000 on new
hanging lights to replace the
current fixtures. Getting new
lighting in Java Haus was the
"big thing that we have been
working towards all year,"
explained Liz Smith, co-man-ager
of the coffee shop.
Smith, along with co-man-ager
Sten Anderson, chose this
project to improve the atmo-sphere
of Java Haus. They will
be able to get rid of the haz-ardous
web of extension cords
which currently connects all the
table lamps. The co-managers
hope to make it more inviting,
so that even more people will
use the coffee house in the
basement of Burgh Hall.
"We are replacing the lamps
that we have now with hanging,
stained glass lamps that are
tiffany-style," explained Smith.
"We originally wanted to hang
one lamp over each table, but
because the lights are pretty
expensive - $200-$250 per light
(with the half off discount they
are receiving) - so it looks like
we will only be able to get six or
seven. But because of the size
of the lights, six or seven will be
plenty. We might even get one
floor lamp," said Smith.
According to Smith, it wasn't
hard to get the money through
legislation. "Because SA is for
the students and the money
was going towards Java Haus,
which is primarily for the stu-dents,
it passed very easily,"
explained Smith. "Aaron Olson
was really instrumental in get-ting
this to happen." The project
is being funded with $1,500
from SA's General Fund and
the profits from Java Haus this
year, which total between
$700-$800.
Last year's big project for
Java Haus was the purchase of
a new stereo. "We would like to
continue making changes,"
said Smith. "For this year, the
new lighting will be about all we
can afford. But we do having lit-tle
things we'd like to do like get
more things on the walls and
add a suggestion box."
The managers hope to see
More outside groups come in to
use the Java Haus. "Bands are
Pretty expensive, so that would
be hard for us to do unless they
Want to play for free, but we
Would like to get some people
in, like a poetry reading group
from Jesus People that we
have been trying to get in here
all year," explained Smith.
"This is really only Java
Haus' third year and there are
Many changes that could be
Made," said Smith. "But I think
so far it has been really suc-cessful."
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Andrews, referring to other
After Hours programs like soc-cer
and after-school tutoring.
Plug-In is the spiritual aspect
of After Hours and, Andrews
said, "The spiritual aspect is the
most important aspect. That
can never be compromised."
"We build relationships with
the kids," said first-year student
Brita Moon who, along with
about 25 other North Park stu-dents,
volunteers for the pro-gram.
"If the kids see that you are
interested and really want to
know about them and their
views, they will be more open
to listen to you," said Andrews.
"It's like your basic youth
group," said first-year student
and Plug -In volunteer Kristin
Janes. Most of these kids, how-ever,
have never experienced
anything like "your basic youth
group." This is a brand new
concept to them.
"I thought it would be boring,"
said seventh-grader Diamond
Wright. "But the first day I got
here I liked it. It was really
exciting." Now Wright comes
every Thursday. She likes the
leaders, saying they're, "very
funny, very intelligent people."
Thursday afternoons, the
game room in Magnuson Cam-pus
Center is open to the stu-dents
for about half an hour
after school. Then at 3:30 they
move into the Cranny for mixer
games, worship in song, a talk
from one of the leaders and
then a time of feedback and
.ftenued from page 1
more personal sharing in small
groups of five or six with two
leaders each. Then the stu-dents
are allowed back into the
game room for another half
hour until North Park vans start
taking them home.
"Thursday is not the main
focus," said Andrews, "It's just
a gateway for the kids." Thurs-days
give the leaders the
opportunity to begin and con-tinue
developing relationships.
The real ministry, according to
Andrews, takes place outside
of Plug-In when leaders meet
with their small groups during
the week.
Since the program's incep-tion
last fall, the number of stu-dents
attending has been
steadily rising. According to
carefully monitored attendance
records, last fall there were
about 20 kids attending each
week's meetings. This
semester there are 32 consis-tent
kids, and the numbers
keep rising.
"We have an emphasis on
quality, not quantity," Andrews
said. "But with quality, the
quantity does come."
The more kids come, the
more leaders are needed. "We
have a really good team of indi-viduals
and we're always look-ing
for volunteers," said Moon.
"It helps you get involved in our
community. You can live in a
complete bubble at North Park
if you don't get out there."
Interested individuals can
call Paul Andrews at ext. 4796.
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A bill tightening U.S. sanc-tions
against Cuba was
passed by the House of Repre-sentatives
in a 336-86 vote
Wednesday. The bill would tar-get
foreign companies doing
business in Cuba in an attempt
to block foreign investment.
The legislation is in response to
the downing of two U.S.-based
planes flown by anti-Castro
exiles by Cuban MiGs two
weeks ago.
Two suicide bombings on
Sunday and Monday in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by
members of the militant Islamic
group, Hamas claimed 32 lives.
Israeli and Palestinian forces
struck at Hamas Wednesday,
making arrests and raiding their
strongholds. Palestinian Presi-dent
Yasser Arafat, under pres-sure
from Israel and the United
States to halt the bombings,
said he was taking "very big
and tough measures" against
Names. Arafat sent police into
the Islamic University in Gaza
in search of weapons and
activists.
Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole swept Tuesday's GOP
presidential primaries, winning
all eight of the primary elections
held. Former Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander and Indiana
Sen. Richard Lugar announced
their withdrawls and now are
supporting Dole. Steve
Forbes announced that he is
now endorsed by Jack Kemp,
former Republican congress-man
from New York.
Attorney F.Lee Bailey,
who helped defend O.J.
Simpson on murder charges,
has been ordered to serve a
six-month jail term. Bailey has
been involved in a dispute
with the U.S. government
over a drug smuggler's
assets. He was told to report
to U.S. Marshals in Florida by
5p.m. EST Wednesday to
begin his sentence, which
was assigned for contempt of
court.
NASA has had more
problems with the booster
rockets that put the shuttle
Columbia into orbit. Some of
the 0-ring seals were burned
during the most recent
launch. NASA said the seals
were not damaged enough to
cause a catastrophe like the
Challenger explosion, but
they are still concerned. Next
week mission managers will
decide if the problem is seri-ous
enough to delay the
March 21 flight of space shut-tle
Atlantis, which is sched-uled
to dock with the Russian
space station Mir.
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Continue down your spiritual path and "cross the street'—to
North Park Theological Seminary for the Conference on the
Ministry—a three-day real-lite experience of seminary education.
While on our side of the street you will meet with Seminary faculty,
staff, and students; attend classes and small group discussions; and
encounter the life of the Seminary as it naturally occurs.
Please join us for the Conference on the Ministry beginning with
dinner April 11 through breakfast April 13., 1996.
Find out more about the
Conference by calling
LeRoy Carlson in
Seminary Admissions
at 244-5530 or
stop by the Seminary.
NORTH PAR
THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY "
3225 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625-4895
North Park ..Theological Seminar-i' is the graduate school of the 'Evangelical Covenant Church.
March 1 1996 3
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by John Skarin
'.0ret ever consider travel bYlrain if you're short of time.
Ws the slowest possible way of transporting your body
between two locations, with a 'possible exception of
MOOn Walking across the continent.
If you have time, and if you are a foreigner, you
can buy a USA'reil.pass. This gives you a chance to experience
unlimited traveling in a country that has more to show than just
the North Park College campus.
The idea of a rail pass was born in Europe where it is very pop-ler
among young people to buy a Euro rail pass, which equals
one long month on ugly trains small trains, smelly trains in
strange countries far awayfrornhome. The American equivalent
Amtrak, is not that diverse or complex
in trying to create a feeling of iThat it's like to travel with Amtrak ,
I've divided the experience into the five human senses: sight,
hearing, tbuch, taste, and smell - which hopefully will help you
feel like you were right there with me. .
Wit: Along its train rollite•the train will run through rural areas that
makes you forget you're living in the 1990's. Sights you've only
Seen in your imagination will pass by at an unreal pace
Advice: The 14 hours on the train "Desert Wind" between Salt
Lake City and Denver Will blow you away. It's on this route the
movie Linder Siege 2 was shot.
Itetailitg: A survival kit on the train includes a Walkman and some- ,.
thing to read: These articles are crucial for your own Well-being,
unless, thatis, you:don't mind discussing San Diego's:history and
political background for 28 hours straight with your seatmate.
Advice: Bring something that will keep you occupied for some
or go insane: Beirib:a really, really good bOok.
Touch: The seats are very comfortable. It's kind of like flying in busi-ness
class, with a few obvious exceptions (no free drinks.)
Strolling around, and hanging out in the lounge/sightseeing car is
un. Its also a good way•to meet the vagabonds like you to share
your stories with.
Advice: Bring a.pillow and a blanket if you're nail • ling :in the
sleeping car.
:
Taste : The food is OK, but adds up to become an economic bur-den.
Also, you get pretty darn tired of engulfing greasy Amtrak
Piizas. (It's a bad sign when you start to miss ARAMAAK)
Bring your own bottled water and a loaf of bread. This will
Nell your 'hunger for a day or so.
SOL If you smell burned emergency brakes it's a sure sign that
something is Wrong. Accidents occur frequently, drunk drivers who
are out during nighttime somehow manage to miss the red signal
and not til'tictil4 )eft After the Athtrot train has hit their car.
Advice: Don't ask the cdriductors aboard what happened. They
WM tell you all the details .0
traveling byln n . 'Enjoy! 11:1 ACILIZT(41
• • •
-4)y Peri Stone
fter a 20.-hour train
ride, my roommate,
Tina CemPain, And I
.,began to Eitickp..4.els
around
ittinS Our first.:Stop W .
libtaryie..b.*nroonie to ..
change our SW4fdrenCheci
:clothes. .
We were traveling in ,e,..0orn-
OefetOie*Viittik Neither lam
ily nor friends knew .0fere we
were; we had:.no:place..tri..stay
and were equipped only with
sparsely-p.aqeditiattipacks.
The lack OF gave us
. real abbreOition toeStpoyOrk,„..
The lack of steep ,. •
Wanderings whiCh. -provide ,
many chances to meet iriterest1.
ing people
:Tina and I braved Bourbon
Street for less than an: hour I
each night, avoiding the ,froth4...•
ing puddle's Of beer Shards Of
broken bottles and hoards Of
men chanting Vulgar and
alarming commands. We were
saddened by the ...people
scrambling " to guzzle More.
liquor Or smoke more pot to
numb their pain. We sensed a
feeling . of emptiness in the
seemingly jovial ,.clubs and
bars..
Deciding against the adver-tised
live orgies, Tina and I
opted for a brightly-lit 24-hour
haven, Cafe DuMonde, jgc.ateo.•
in the center of the French
Quarter. We indulged in cheap:
and heavenly beignets, a deli-•
cate doughnut-like pastry :
dusted with powder sugar, and
. . .
Cale au lait, Cafe Dursilonde , .
provided e perfect outdoor spot
to eye the busy street and
enjoy the Warm'ajr.l.
wri9rizkyc.if-werenl at the cafe.
darit4thel:flight, we Walked on
path along the Mississippi
Aiver. We met Racine a shoe:
ahine, who shared his life strug-gles
of growing up on the
wiselikepend thelittle rrione
_
Wefied left.
• • But.
. our
next
meal
cost
'us .
116#1".
streets. of Chicago...and Jacing Tina
befriended .a togal name Bal
who happened to be a gebrme
Cajun Cook. We followed him t
'*••• his shabby cabby hole wher
he served thebest chicken an
rice I've ever tasted. He the
gave us an '!underground" tou
of New Qrleans, revealing tid
bits of history that only a loca
could know.
We discovered the rich pas
of the buildings and the store
and the people on the street
He even introduced us to hi
friends and encouraged us t
come back the next summer t
work, promising big bucks. •
As Tina and I headed back
to the train station, we were u: .
sad knowing . that we would
most likely never see any o
these people again_ At the
same time, We valued the rich
ness of the brief friendships w
had cultivated and the lesson
we had learned.
Dirty and fatigued, we:col
lapsed onto the seats of the
Amtrak train, nervous and
excited to tell our friends back
home of our adventures. But
for the meantime, we just
wanted to sleep.
•
the temptations of gangs and
drUgs. Racine was With ds•
when we watched the sun
and unfold onto the river, the
glow pulsing an the..:),.:Weyes.
The new day brought ifeeting
of hope, renewal and cairn.
• qina
and I
Spent our
first full
day in
. New.
...Orleans at
. the annual
Jazz. Fes-
•tival. For
only $20,
. we ...
danced to the tunes of Flay
Charles and other blues and
jazz legends and ate exotic
foods like fried alligaior. The
festival boasted booths full of
cultural paraphernalia, fun peo-ple
and several stages with
various styles of music.
The last day, Tina and I
explored the French Quarter
'onCeagain, 'dipping in and out
of stores that we had already
browsed After two days and
two niglite,'We were exhausted
and rested in A lush park. Hun-gry;
we tried to plot ways to
Warming up fOii
in the lower Cr
g Bp*Ic Students cul
,Saturday night.
rs on cckas &rood in last week's
•-artiCle at the TOrsdThSter, 2827 • :•,•••-•,-- - •
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couple years of your life doing
something you really like and
getting paid for it. Of course I'd
like that, but I'm not holding my
breath." All of the guys do
agree, however, that their
favorite thing about being in
Precious Macintosh is getting
to play with their best friends.
"It isn't our crack musician-ship
which holds the band
together — heck, I had never
even picked up a bass until a
month before out first recording
— but the close friendship we
have," said Anderson.
Precious Macintosh has
been encouraged by the rave
reviews from their first show.
Pappenfus believes that it is
their unique sound that truly
sets them apart. "I think Brian
(Palmberg) is a great song
writer," said Pappenfus. "He
comes up with all kinds of
changes that sound so original.
It doesn't sound like Blues
Traveler, or The Dead, or REM,
it's distinctly Precious Macin-tosh."
Fleuretta King will speak at
Java Haus on Black Femi-nism
and Womanism
Tuesday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m.
A Faculty Recital: Julie Zum-steg
(cello) and Kimberly
Schmidt (piano)
music from Rachmaninoff,
Stravinsky and Bach
March 20 at 8:15 p.m. in
Anderson Chapel
FREE
One Woman, One Vote
movie/discussion on suffrage
Movement - in Java Haus
Sunday, March 24 at 9:30
An outing to the Jane
Addams Hill House Museum
Saturday, March 30
Still Killing Us Softly
movie/discussion on media's
effect on women
Sunday, March 31 at 9:30 p.m.
in Java Haus
Spring Play: Easter
March 28, 29, 30 at 8 p.m. and
March 31 at 3 p.m.
LHA
$3 students, $10 general
Information: (312) 244-5644
International Women's Day
Rally & March
Rally at the Federal Plaza
Friday, March 8 at 12 p.m.
Forum/Teach-In "Bejing and
Beyond":Women's Rights to
Economic Justice
Saturday, March 9 from 9:30-4
P.m. at DePaul University
1 East Jackson
tickets are $5
Information: (312) 641-5151
Meet & Greet Chicago NOW
"Endorsed" Candidates
endorsement party hosted by
Chicago's NOW Political Action
Committee
Sunday, March 10 from 4-6
p.m. at 1733 N. Hoyne
FREE
Reservations: (312) 922-0025
Bluegrass pioneer Ralph
Stanley brings Mountain
Melodies to the Old Town
School
Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. and
10 p.m.
909 West Armitage Ave.,
Chicago
tickets are $15
Information: (312) 525-7793
Lounge Ax presents Jad Fair
and Wuhling
Friday, March 8
2438 N. Lincoln, Chicago
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By Kristina Klockars
The lights were dim, the
mood was set. and the first
Show of Precious Macintosh
Was about to begin. They
Opened up for Sally Rides
Rocketships at Phyllis' Musical
Inn on Valentine's Day to a
large crowd -most of whom
Were North Parkers.
The members of Precious
Macintosh, Brian Palmberg,
Chris Pappenfus, Jon Young,
Matt Landin and Keith Ander-son
all met their first year at
North Park, but it wasn't until
their third year that they
decided to form a band.
"We decided to form a band
One night when we were watch-
!dg one of our favorite movies
One More Saturday Night.' It is
kind of a 1980 junior high cult
Classic," explained Keith Ander-
Son. "One of the best scenes
has a band named 'Badmouth'
With Al Franken, playing a gig
In St. Paul, Minn., at the
iKabooze: The song was goofy
Information: (312) 525-6620
T-Bone and Gospel Gangstas
also: Soul Food 76 and
Lazarus
March 23 at 6 p.m. at the Won-derland
Auditorium
310 E. Chicago Ave., Elgin
Information: (847) 888-8670
Sixpence None the Richer,
Dime Store Prophets and
Black Eyed Sceva
Wednesday, March 27 at True
Tunes Upstairs
Information: (708) 665-3813
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The Peace Museum Grand
Re-Opening
Music (jazz guitar), great food
and poetry readings
Sunday, March 10 from 2-6
p.m.
314 W. Institute Place, 1st
Floor (one block north of the
Chicago Avenue stop to the
Ravenswood El)
$15 for non-members
*regular hours are Tuesday-
Saturday 11-5 (admission is
$3.50)
Information: (312) 440-1860
The Science of Aromather-apy
Get in touch with your sense of
smell!
Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m. at
North Pier, third level
435 East Illinois Street,
Chicago
Information: (312) 871-2668
A Discovery Tour of The
Aztec, The Maya and Their
Predecessors
Sunday, March 10 at 11:30 &
2:30 p.m.
The Field Musuem, Roosevelt
Road at Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago
Information: (312) 322-8859
The Visiting Artists Program
at the School of the Art Insti-tute
March 11—Berebuce Reynaud,
who has most recently
explored Chinese video and art
and related issues of cultural
and sexual identity, will lecture.
March 25—Jay Rosenblatt is a
San Francisco filmmaker and
therapist in a psychiatric unit;
his films deal with the pyschol-ogy
of the human mind.
280 S. Columbus Dr., Chicago
FREE to students and staff of
area colleges
Information: (312) 443-3711
Sun Fest: Vernal Equinox
Celebration at the Adler Plan-etarium
Make your own pocket sundial!
Wednesday, March 20 at 11
a.m. to 4 p.m.
1300 South Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago
Information: (312) 322-0304
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Photo by Lukas Eklund
Professor Raymond Jan& tar left, holds practice for an
LIM:0MM play with a group of students (from left, Chris Pappenfus, Pate-Male Olson,
'Precious Macintosh"
and fun and we decided right
then that we wanted to form a
band so we could cover 'Don't
Lie To Me' by Badmouth." The
band still hasn't covered the
song though.
Precious Macintosh started
out with Young, Anderson,
Palmberg and Landin. Pap-penfus
recalls when he first
came into the band. "I guess
they felt they were lacking a
lead singer, and that's when I
wandered into the room. We
hashed through a few Grateful
Dead charts and some REM
and had a good old time," he
said.
The name for the band
comes from Landin's dad who
was a teacher in the 1960s and
had a student named Precious
Macintosh who ended up going
to Vietnam. Landin's father
didn't think about him again
until 20 years later when he
saw Precious' name in the
paper. He had been brought up
on murder charges. 'The name
just has that cool ring to it," said
Anderson. Precious Macintosh
recorded one tape last spring,
Mello Pad, a compilation of
covers including REM, Grateful
Dead, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon
and Blues Traveler. They plan
to record their original songs in
a studio in the near future.
Although Landin and Palmberg
predominantly write the songs,
all of the band members con-tribute.
The band looks at this expt-rience
as a fun college phase,
but most of the members do
not feel the band will continue
after graduation. "The lifestyle
of a touring band isn't all that
appealing to me,- said Pap-penfus.
'Would I like to go pro-fessional?
That's like asking if
you'd like to spend the next
Before
and After
Movie Review
by Greg Harms
In everyone's life there
comes an event that changes
everything that happens after-ward.
Before, life is innocent
and naive. After, it is filled with
knowledge and experience.
Before and After explores this
process in a family whose 16-
year-old son is accused of
murder.
Carol and Ben Ryan (Meryl
Streep and Liam Neeson) are
a wealthy couple in the town
of Hyland whose son, Jacob
(Furlong), is accused of the
murder of a local girl. The
whole family must grapple
with the changes that this
brings to their life. The movie
deals with the process of the
Ryans moving from their
before, through the process of
the trial, to their after.
Before the murder, the
Ryans were a typical family
who believed that life was
good, and that nothing bad
could happen to innocent peo-ple.
However, they soon learn
otherwise as their before
comes crashing down.
Carol comes to believe in
her son's innocence, and
believes that the truth will set
him free. Ben believes that
Jacob is guilty but is willing to
do anything to protect him
from justice, including lying
and destroying evidence. In
order to get an acquittal for
Jacob, he hires a lawyer
(Molina) who is willing to com-promise
the truth. Carol fights
the lawyer every inch of the
way, because of her belief in
the truth.
The struggle between the
lawyer and Carol Ryan leads
to family tension that the
Ryans must, and eventually
do, work through. After the
trial, they have learned that
the world is a dark place. They
are disillusioned by a justice
system that punishes innocent
people along with the guilty,
and whole families along with
the accused.
Ted Tally's script wonder-fully
fills the characters with
life. He is able to flesh out
...The acting makes
the movie a riveting
experience.
every little aspect of the
Ryans' personalities. The
script is enhanced by the
superb acting on every actor's
part. Although the point is not
always clear, the acting makes
the movie a riveting experi-ence.
Neeson delivers the
best performance, portraying
the confused but loving father,
torn between belief in his
son's guilt and love for his
son. Streep compliments him
wonderfully, portraying the lov-ing
mother who completely
believes in her son's inno-cence.
The wonderful ensem-ble
acting is what truly brings
this intense, powerful, and
enjoyable movie to life.
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The Prayers of a Selfish Child
by Mark Ake Larson
A friend
and I have
started
exchanging
random
questions
and
answers
just for fun.
Questions
like "What do you fear most?"
or "What would it take to get
you to stop smoking?" Some
answers are short; others fill a
whole page. One of my
answers not only filled a whole
page, but it also really got me
thinking. She asked, "What did
you pray for as a child?"
I remember praying for the
safety of my family, and that I
would get the presents I
wanted for Christmas. I prayed
that Jesus would come back
the summer before seventh
grade started because seventh
grade was junior high, and you
took the city bus to junior high,
and I was afraid of the city bus.
And I was convinced that Jesus
wouldn't make me ride on city
buses. More seriously, I
prayed for the starving children
in Africa that Sally Struthers
would show on TV, and the
missionaries that our church
supported.
All these things are fairly
common for children to pray
for, but I also had a very
strange prayer habit: I prayed
for things in the past. I prayed
for the African slaves and
Native Americans. I couldn't
imagine what it was like for
their families to be torn apart,
for children to be carried away
or see their fathers being
beaten and their mothers being
raped. I prayed for people that
I didn't know and that were
already dead, believing that
God back then knew that I
would be praying now and He
would answer my prayers and
make it easier for the people
who were going through
intense trials.
I also prayed for Biblical
characters that I liked. My
favorite book was Ruth and I
prayed that God would give her
the strength to stand up for her
oppressed people. I prayed for
Paul in jail, the little children
who came to Jesus, the boy
with the loaves and fishes, the
lepers, and the Israelites under
Pharaoh. I also prayed for the
Christians persecuted by Nero,
and the people tortured by the
Church in the Middle Ages.
I often felt that my prayers
200 to 3000 years after the fact
had made an impact on what
had happened in history. I
can't say whether or not they
really did. I suppose one could
find all kinds of crazy argu-ments
on either side of the
coin. I don't really care to find
logical or Biblical proof either
way. I still do it because pray-ing
over what is on my heart
helps even if it is an intense
hurt caused by injustices of the
past.
What has changed in the
way I pray for the past now and
the way I did as a child is what
comes after the Amen. As a
child, I prayed for the
oppressed and then I went out
to play, quickly forgetting the
short-lived sorrow my heart had
felt after seeing pictures of
oppression. As an adult, I pray
that my sorrow will move me to
action. As a child, I prayed and
walked away, just as selfish as
I had been before. As an adult,
a prayer for the oppressed peo-ple
followed by the continuation
of a selfish lifestyle is nothing
but childish.
A child asks his parent for a
gift and has no input into the
money or effort needed to
attain that gift. If adults want
something, they have to work
for it. Christians love to pray for
world peace; they love to pray
that Christ will come and set up
His Kingdom on earth. I
believe that it is time that we,
as Christians, begin following
up our prayers for peace with
action. By actually helping our
Heavenly Parent in providing
the gift, we may just be able to
receive it.
Jesus as President
by Matt Landin
It's an elec-tion
year!
All the pres-idential
can-didates
are
going to be
taking
stands on
the big
American
issues that divide this nation.
Although the candidates do not
agree on many issues, they all
claim to be Christian. What,
then, is Christian?
Where would Jesus stand if
he were running for President
of the United States?
Abortion—Jesus, the Bible
Belt conservative Republican:
For some reason, this sub-ject
always seems to come up
more around March, Women's
History Month, as if it were
strictly a women's issue. I'm
sorry to let all you pro-choicers
down but there is no way that
Jesus would ever be pro-choice.
If Mary was living in our
time, Jesus probably would
have been aborted. Of course
6 March 1 1996
there is no scriptural backing
for pro-life, but it makes sense.
Is there any occasion when you
could possibly see Jesus con-doning
an abortion? I can pic-ture
the verse now "I haveth
three words for thou: A-dop-tion."
Even after a rape, the baby
is still one of God's children.
There should be no exceptions
in Christian ethics, not even
with rape; this sort of teaching
may seem almost impossible to
Capital Punishment -
Jesus t the bleeding-heart
iiberal Demo-crat...
follow by human standards, but
that is the case with so many of
Jesus' teachings.
Capital Punishment—Jesus,
the bleeding-heart liberal
Democrat:
Jesus not only taught of the
evil of murder, but also of the
evil of anger and revenge.
"Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you"
(Mt 5: 44).
Jesus would no doubt spend
endless tax dollars on rehabili-tation
and criminal care. Even
the most gruesome serial
killers would not be sent to the
electric chair under Jesus'
administration.
Welfare/ unemployment/
elderly care—Jesus, the
Socialist:
Oh boy, there go our tax dol-lars!
"I tell you the truth, what-ever
you did for one of the least
of these brothers of mine, you
did for me" (Mt 25: 40). Some-how,
I don't think Jesus would
be backing big business, capi-talist
ideals or even the Ameri-can
dream.
Actually, a society under
Jesus' rule would not be able to
exist because of man's selfish
tendencies. Even today's
Socialist nations don't compare
to the type of government that
Jesus would create.
I know it is impossible for
man to live by God's standards;
but it is strange that in a Chris-tian
nation, many of our major
laws clash so harshly with the
teachings of Jesus.
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Womanonymity
by Erin Heiser
Who invented the cotton gin? Most educated Americans
would answer "Eli Whitney." I learned his name in fifth grade,
and I haven't forgotten it. His name is what went down in the
( history books and his name is what we are i)taught. Just recently I came across a little
known fact: actually, it was a woman named
Catherine Green who designed the cotton gin
and also came up with the money to back the
invention. But who has ever heard of her? She
has been anonymous throughout history. She is
only one of many anonymous women.
March is National Women's History Month. For the occasion,
the Committee on Gender Issues has been handing out but-tons
and bookmarks and planning events which work to create
awareness about women's history and to celebrate the accom-plishments
of our sisters. There has been much confusion over
one particular button that hosts the slogan: "Anonymous was
a WOMAN." The fact that so many students don't understand
the slogan proves the point that the slogan makes.
Recently I heard a student complain about one of his classes
in which the syllabus consisted of all women writers and only
one man. He said this was a great injustice and that it was
"irresponsible" not to equally represent men. When I pointed
out that the situation is usually reversed, he agreed. He said
he had sat through classes in which male writers are featured,
never giving the issue a second thought. Further, he conceded
that probably still, he would have "no problem" with sitting
through a class where male authors were being taught. Men's
history still makes up the abundance of the curricula, but he
saw his professor's choice in material as a spiteful act of
reverse discrimination.
History, however, is filled with women. Female writers, artists,
pilots, and inventors were movers and shakers of society. And
although some significant gains have been made within the
lastl 0 years or so, an abundance of important women's history
is still being left out of the classroom.
Several women, such as "George Eliot," used to publish
under a man's name, because the instant a publisher saw a
woman's name, he disregarded the piece. Oftentimes a woman
painter's name would be scratched off of her painting and
replaced by a man's name – usually that of her husband, father
or brother.
Another piece of history often overlooked is the women's suf-frage
movement. I did not even hear about it until my third year
in college. Sadly, the first time I voted, I had never even heard
most of the names of the women who ceaselessly fought for
my right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell,
and Alice Paul were among the hundreds and hundreds of
women who marched, wrote letters, and lobbied for women's
suffrage. But how many non-history majors know this?
It is a great injustice for any institution of higher learning not
to see to it that half of the earth's population be equally and
accurately represented. Women have been anonymous for far
too long.
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Sally Rides On...
Dear editor,
Since I am an American of
Norwegian extraction, I was
really ticked off by Per Johans-son's
letter in the last College
News. Just because Mette Lof-blad
doesn't know some old
sixties song, that gives him the
right to declare that "Norwe-gians
have no soul?"
What gall! What arrogance!
Tell me, what is it about
Swedes that makes them so
damn smug? I mean, these are
the people who gave us Abba
and Ace of Base! So which eth-nic
group has soul and which
doesn't?
Per Johansson—you and
your fellow Swedes wouldn't
know a good band if it bit you in
the ass!
Ted Anderson
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AIDS/HIV hits home
Dear editor,
I truly appreciate the mes-sage
of Mike O'Sullivan's col-umn
in the March 1, 1996 issue
of "The College News." I also
appreciate Mr. O'Sullivan's
artistic abilities. But I want to
challenge a stereotype that he
perpetuates in his cartoon. As
someone whose life has been
repeatedly touched by
AIDS/HIV - my uncle died a
year ago, my sister-in-law 12
years ago, and her daugh-ter/
my niece struggles daily
with her ARC (AIDS Related
Complex) status - I know that it
is not only the half-drunk,
nearly naked who attack those
with AIDS/HIV. Fully clothed,
non-drinkers, male and female
spew out the same garbage as
the character in the cartoon.
Due to their fear and igno-rance,
many well-meaning peo-ple
have continued to blame
the victims of this horrible virus.
While these misguided individ-uals
are busy wasting time,
money, and energy chastising
others about their lack of
"virtue," AIDS/HIV spreads. As
Mr. O'Sullivan points out,
AIDS/HIV will touch all of our
lives. I pray that we can get
past the name-calling and work
together to find a cure and sup-port
those living with AIDS/HIV.
Koby Lee-Forman, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Education History
GOAL Program Advisor
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by Mark Erickson
Alyosha
would have
found it
strange and
impossible
to go on liv-ing
as
before. It is
written:
"Give all
that thou hast to the poor and
follow Me, if thou wouldst be
perfect." Alyosha said to him-self:
"I can't give two rubles
instead of 'all,' and only go to
mass instead of 'following
Him." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
Ttofatte
Every year I read articles in
The College News written by
reflective seniors looking back
on all they have learned and
experienced at North Park.
Reflection is a shared experi-ence
for many seniors. Per-haps
it is a mechanism of cop-ing
with an uncertain future.
Whatever the reason, I find
myself beginning to reflect on
my journey the past four years.
I remember my freshman year
especially well.
I remember studying physics
on Saturday afternoons in the
library. I remember missing my
family and good friends, who
were slowly becoming more
distant, although I did not real-ize
it at the time. I remember
the slow process of meeting
people and gaining close
friends, many of whom will be
life-long friends. We spent
many hours in late-night dis-cussions
in the first floor hall-way
of Sohlberg. At the risk of
irritating slumbering neighbors
and the quick-tempered RA,
we enjoyed the process of
struggling through the impor-tant
issues of life.
I struggled with my future,
and to what vocation God was
calling me. I wondered if God
really finds any value in
physics. I remember asking a
BTS major in the basement of
the library what he thought I
should do with my life. After all,
he was a BTS major. Shouldn't
he have an enlightened vision
of what vocation is pleasing to
God? He told me that I can
serve God just as well if I do
physics as if I were a mission-ary
or a pastor. I remember not
being content with his answer.
Maybe, I was not asking the
right question.
Now I am a BTS major and a
physics major, and I still do not
have an enlightened vision Of
God's call for my life. I am try-ing
to decide whether God is
calling me to a prestigious
Engineering graduate school,
which will certainly give me a
promising, successful future, or
to follow an unknown path that
leads me to a hurting world in
need of the love of Christ. I am
beginning to think that "The
Call" that many seem to expe-rience,
and that I have hoped
for, may not come at all.
Maybe all Christians are simply
supposed to take Jesus'
instructions on compassion
seriously. A couple of weeks
ago, Bart Campolo wondered
why, as a rule, pastors are
called to bigger churches with
larger salaries – certainly not to
small inner city churches with
low budgets, high crime, and a
large amount of need. He won-dered
why, as a rule, Christians
tend to drift toward successful
middle- class careers, waiting
to be divinely selected for
God's service, instead of drift-ing
towards radical Christian
service to the poor.
Maybe "The Call" has
become an excuse for many. It
is easy not to feel called to a
life that terrifies you in many
ways, does not make you a
success or fulfill the American
Dream, and is very uncertain.
As for me, I do not know what
path I will choose. I hope that
my decision is based on a
response to Christ, not simply
the lack of a call. As Chris-tians,
we cannot use the lack of
a call as an excuse for not fol-lowing
Jesus.
March 1 1996 7
Photo by Lukas Eklund
Junior bin Osella aims a solid kick at the ball during the women's soc-cer
season last fall.
Recruiting close to home
by James Cook
Commentary
To become a successful program, a winning program,
North Park's soccer program must be able to recruit
from the city of Chicago. North Park is situated on a
soccer gold mine in the Windy City. The question is,
how can North Park take advantage of it? On the cur-rent
roster, not one player hails from the city. Why is this? Why
the inability to recruit from its own backyard? With schools like
Admundsen, Foreman, and Lane Tech relatively close by, why
hasn't North Park focused on the surplus of talent that is coming
out of these schools?
Men's soccer coach Peter Roman addressed the problem: "In
the fall, when the boy's teams play, I just don't have the time to
go see them play," he explained. "And in the spring, I coach the
women's softball team, so my time is extremely limited. But there
is no doubt that we need to make a concentrated effort to try and
get some of these kids to consider North Park as an option."
Roman went on to explain some of the other difficulties in
recruiting. "We're not allowed to talk to players face to face until
their senior year," he said. "Before that, our only means of com-munication
with (underclassmen) players is by the phone, or if
they visit the campus. It is very difficult to sell a kid on a program
that does not have a winning tradition. Our facilities are not first-rate
either; the team plays on the same field it practices on."
The positives that Roman cites in the recruiting process are
the "Covenant connection" and "word of mouth." But the prob-lem
is, as he admits, the aforementioned positive factors don't
apply, in most cases, to Chicago high school kids.
So the bottom-line is: What is going to be done to improve the
non-existent recruiting in the city?
"I need someone who can watch some of these kids and who
can give me a report that I can trust," explained Roman. "I can't
have the boy's father giving me the scouting report, because
they'll just tell you how wonderful their kid is. What we can offer
the kids is the possible opportunity to play right away and make
an impact; to stay in the city so that their family and friends can
watch them play. Once we get those first couple of city kids,
recruiting in the city will be much easier."
The initial breakthrough is always the hardest, especially when
you're trying to convince a prospect to play for a team that went
3-13 last year. However, recruiting the city's talent is just what
North Park men's soccer needs to revitalize its program.
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was a season of strug-gle
this past year for the
women's basketball
earn—a 3-22 record
suggests as much.
Much of this season's struggle
can be blamed on the fact that
the team was lacking in experi-ence,
evident by the lack of
seniors on the squad. The lack
of experience may have
caused losses to conference
foes with more experience
under their players' belts.
Despite the growing pains
the team went through, the
coach and players maintain
hope and enthusiasm, Coach
Tricia Floyd's take on the sea-son
was optimistic, but also
realistic: "We were a very
young team, with no seniors,
so experience was a problem,"
she explained. "What also hurt
us was that our point-guard
Britt Dahlstrom was in Sweden
for the first semester. When
she returned, she eventually
worked her way back into the
starting line-up. Even though
we didn't win many games, we
improved tremendously as a
team."
Coach Floyd added that for
the coming year. the goals are
to quicken the pace. "I want to
employ* fast-break, up-tempo
game, and to incorporate the
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three-point shot into our sys-tem.
To do this we will have to
press and trap on defense,"
she said.
Ultimately however, it will
come down to the player as
Coach Floyd acknowledged: "it
all depends on how hard my
players work in the summer."
One of the few bright spots
this year was the talent of first-year
student Sara Whitefield,
the starting power forward/cen-ter
who averaged 16 points and
14 rebounds a game, White-field
was recognized by NCAA
News as one of the top
rebounders in Division III.
When asked about the secret
to her rebounding success,
Whitefield replied, "I don't
know, it helps to be tall." She
added, "You have to be aggres-sive
and have that desire to
grab the ball." She also com-mented
on the team's losses.
"It was frustrating not win-ning
that much, but I had fun,"
said Whitefield of her first year
on North Park's team.
Co-captain Jerry Adamson's
opinion on the past year and
the future was similar. "This
year was a building year; we
only had four returning players
and no seniors," she says. "But
I'm looking forward to the
upcoming season."
Coach Floyd has recruited
two point-guards for the
upcoming season to relieve
Britt Dahlstrom of the pressure
of playing point; she will return
to the off-guard position. The
recruits, who are seniors in
high school this year, will be
first-year North Park students
next fall. Dahlstrom played off-guard
in high-school, and says
she feels more at home in her
natural ,:• position.
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answered until the team steps
onto the court next year. But
with everybody returning next
season, experience won't be a
problem, and along with the
star talent of Sara Whiteman,
next season certainly looks
more promising.
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